*Program*
*Beyond Fake News: Mitigating the Spread of Epistemically Toxic Content
An International Online Workshop*
Department of Management Information Systems, Zefat Academic College
Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa
April 21-22, 2021
All times are in Israel Standard Time (GMT+2)
Participation in the workshop is free. To receive a participation link, please pre-register at https://forms.gle/cZQiwp1zegoEteNg8 by April 19, 2021.
*Day 1: Wednesday, April 21*
*17:00 – 17:05 | Welcome Greetings *
Professor Daniel Statman, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa
*17:05 – 18:05 | Session 1: Improving Users’ Skills*
Axel Gelfert | Philosophy, Literature, History of Science and Technology | Technical University of Berlin | Cultivating epistemic routines for navigating toxic epistemic environments
Sarit Barzilai | Education | University of Haifa | Beyond technological fixes and nudges: An educational approach to addressing misinformation
*18:15 – 19:15 | Session 2: Norms of Posting and Sharing*
Sacha Altay | Cognitive Science | Institut Jean Nicod | Understanding the spread of fake news
Glenn Anderau | Philosophy | University of Zürich | Passive testimony: Exploring social media as an epistemic environment
*19:30 – 20:30 | Session 3: Public Manipulation*
- Thi Nguyen | Philosophy | University of Utah | The Seductions of Clarity
Richard Rogers | New Media & Digital Culture | University of Amsterdam | Mainstreaming the fringe: How misinformation propagates on social media
Day 2: Thursday, April 21
*17:00 – 17:05 | Welcome Greetings *
Professor Opher Etzion, Chair, Depart/ment of Management Information Systems, Zefat Academic College
*17:05 – 18:05 | Session 4: Global Perspectives*
Fábio Ribeiro | UTAD | CECS-UMinho| Assessing the quality of the online comments: A methodological proposal from journalistic websites in Portugal, Brazil and Spain
Desmond Onyemechi Okocha, Samson A. Shaibu, and Melchizedec J. Onobe | Mass Communication | Bingham University | X-raying the multidimensional implications of institutionalized fake news and disinformation on Nigerian pluralistic society
18:15 – 19:15 | Session 5: Mitigating the Flow of Toxic Content
Isaac Record | Lyman Briggs College | Michigan State University | People, Posts, and Platforms: Reducing the spread of online toxicity by contextualizing content and setting norms
Aviv Barnoy | Management Information Systems | Zefat Academic College | Philosophy | University of Haifa | Mitigating the spread of epistemically toxic content
*19:30 – 20:40 | Closing Session*
Presenter: Karen Frost-Arnold | Philosophy | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Epistemic Trash and Toxic Content
Commentator: Anat Ben David | Sociology, Political Science and Communication | Open University of Israel
Concluding Remarks:
Arnon Keren | Philosophy | University of Haifa
Boaz Miller | Management Information Systems | Zefat Academic College
Research presented in this conference was supported by ISF Grant 650/18 “Skepticism about Testimony”.
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